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This results in two groups of sorted icons on the desktop. I want to move all of the icons in the "C:\Users\Public\Public Desktop" to the "C:\Users\UserName\Desktop". This will result in ALL of the desktop icons being sorted.

I want to use a batch file to do the move. Then click on a desktop icon to run the batchfile. How can I do this?

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The batch file I've come up with is named "movicons.bat" as follows:
rem @echo off
move "C:\Users\Public\Public Desktop\*.*" C:\Users\Dad\Desktop

I created a desktop shortcut named "MovIcons" with the target as:
D:\Batfiles\movicons.bat

But when I click that desktop icon, the icons are not moved. Need help to get it all working.

They are deliberately different, one is a public accessible area with links to progrmans that anyone may use. Dad's are specifically for your profile, which if Admin also gives permissions over a normal account.
What puzzles me is why you cannot just open one and select all, then copy or move to the other.

They are deliberately different, one is a public accessible area with links to progrmans that anyone may use. Dad's are specifically for your profile, which if Admin also gives permissions over a normal account.
What puzzles me is why you cannot just open one and select all, then copy or move to the other.

Yes, I can manually copy the icons using win7's drag and drop as you pointed out. But that takes multiple steps. I want to just create a batch file and desktop shortcut that will do it all with a single click. Then I will be able to sort all of my desktop icons for the next 8 years of using Win 7 with single clicks.

I did this when I was running Windows XP and it worked fine (though the paths were different). I just can't get it to work running Win 7.

My theory is what I learned when taking a programming class many years ago:
"Don't make the human do what the computer can do better and faster."

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